If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.